It claims to be light in calories - and now it appears Bethenny Frankel's Skinnygirl Margaritas may be a little light on the facts too.

The
reality TV star’s cocktail mix has been accused of using poor quality,
non-pure tequila, rather than the ‘100 per cent blue agave tequila’
advertised on the bottle.

It
is another blow for Skinnygirl, after the mix was pulled
from Wholefoods for containing potentially carcinogenic ingredients earlier this year.

Product pulled: Bethenny Frankel's Skinnygirl margarita has been withdrawn from Whole Foods because it does not contain all natural ingredients

'Misleading': A Manhattan, New York law suit also claims the Skinnygirl Margarita mix falsely advertised the quality and purity of the tequila it contains

The
company founder and former Real Housewives of New York City star has repeatedly claimed that her ‘margarita you can trust’ had
just two ingredients: agave nectar and 100 per cent blue agave tequila.

But Wholefoods found it contained the preservative sodium benzoate, which can become carcongenic when mixed with vitamin C.

Skinnygirl
drinkers Christopher Rapcinsky and Erin Baker brought a $10 million
class action lawsuit against its makers for falsely claiming the drink
was ‘all natural’ with ‘no preservatives’.

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Rapcinsky
and Baker have now amended their suit after discovering the tequila
in the drink is ‘a lower quality and purity tequila by-product called
mixto - essentially a mash of tequila and some unknown additives’.

Comparing
pure tequila to mixto ‘is like comparing Thunderbird wine to a fine
Chianti. They're both wine, but very different,’ said their lawyer, Tom
Mullaney.

Frankel, 40, sold the two-year-old drink line earlier this year for a reported $120million, according to the New York Post.

Defiant: Defending the claims earlier this year, Frankel said: 'We are the fastest growing spirits brand in the US. Everyone loves to try to tear down a success'

The
lawsuit claims that after liquor giant Beam Global bought the
Skinnygirl brand from Frankel, the labels changed to say the drink was
made ‘with premium Blue Agave tequila’ – taking out the ‘100 per cent’
reference.

The statement that it includes the premium tequila could therefore be true, the suit said, but is still misleading.

It adds that Skinnygirl's ‘entire marketing campaign, both its advertising and labelling, is based on falsehoods’.

‘Consumers
would not have purchased Skinnygirl Margarita had they known it was
manufactured with inferior mixto tequila,’ it said.

In
a statement, Beam Global argued: ‘Skinnygirl Margarita is made with
premium blue agave tequila and meets the highest quality standards. We
will defend our case vigorously, and we are fully confident we will
prevail.’

Success: Frankel, left, shot to fame as part of the cast of reality show The Real Housewives of New York City, pictured. She has gone on to write diet books

Frankel fiercely defended the drink earlier this year when it was revealed it was not as natural as she'd claimed.

'I'm
not making wheatgrass here. If I could put an agave plant and some
limes on a shelf I would. The Skinnygirl Margarita is as close to nature
as possible, while still being a shelf-stable product,' she told Access
Hollywood.

'We are, in
fact, the fastest growing spirits brand in the US... We were bound to
p*** someone off, and everyone loves to try to tear down a success.
This is a non-event.'

Frankel, who largely avoids meat, regularly lauds the virtues of a healthy lifestyle.

She has recently announced that her 15-month-old daughter Bryn is being raised a vegetarian.

On her blog, she wrote: 'As far as raising Bryn as a vegetarian, that was a personal choice.

'Healthy': Frankel recently announced she is raising her 15-month-old daughter Bryn as a vegetarian. 'I'm excited for how healthy she will be,' she said

Family: Frankel with her husband Jason Hoppy and daughter Bryn in New York

‘If
Bryn is older and wants something at a party that isn’t vegetarian, I
don’t want her to feel ostracised. She’ll find her way.

'I
have eaten raw, vegan, vegetarian etc and I love the feeling of eating
all of those healthy foods and not incorporating meat.'

Bethenny,
who was spotted out in New York last month filming new episodes for her
spin-off reality show Bethenny Ever After, also reveals she feeds Bryn
largely organic foods.

'Early
on, I made the choice to go all organic for Bryn. Don’t get me wrong,
if we are in a Mexican restaurant where I know the guacamole isn’t
organic, it’s OK.

'Obsession
isn’t the point here. Doing the best we can is. Our babies are a
beautiful clean slate, and I am so excited for how healthy she will be.'

Bethenny, who married husband Jason Hoppy last March, has written several diet books.